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by deckar01 8y ago
My optometrists have all used color-coded stickers that represent the price tiers of frames. Only one of them ever seems to be under my insurance allowance. They don't really have an incentive to make them any cheaper than the average
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by deckar01 8y ago
I saw this design pattern in a high end plasma screen TV back in 2007. Tons of paper thin ribbon cables sealed to the glass. We got it broken in an auction, fixed it by plugging one of the tiny cables back in, then destroyed it trying to pu
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by deckar01 8y ago
This article is less informative than the one it is citing. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/mit-stanf...
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by deckar01 8y ago
This article does not explain why sharding the history reduces the time it takes for a transaction to end up in a block. It also does not mention that this delay is exacerbated by the standard practice of waiting for several blocks to be mi
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by deckar01 8y ago
> On April 14, 2017, at 14: 55: 52, the email address "rlincc@gmail.com" was accessed from IP address 199.38.233.169, an IP address owned by WANSecurity, a Kansas VPN service. As discussed above, this Gmail address is directly
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by deckar01 8y ago
Notion is synonym of inkling, Matt Macinnis invested, and it has drag and drop composition... I wonder if some people from Inkling are working on this.
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by deckar01 8y ago
No matter how educated you are about the scientific method, there are going to be hypothesis that you don't have the technical skills to test yourself. Scientific knowledge has advanced, in part by accepting consensus. Not until a new
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by deckar01 8y ago
> There are also customized Python interpreters, notably Dropbox, which use their own magic and encrypt bytcode. With the exception of the Dropbox's old Python 2.5 interpreter this kind of thing is not handled.
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by deckar01 8y ago
I recently built my mom a basic web app to automate building patient evaluations. She has been using paper forms with checkboxes for decades and they started requiring the info in digital format over the last few years. She had been copy an
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by deckar01 8y ago
The theory behind it is interesting, but in practice I found it underwhelming for practical applications. The point of using it was to get a performance boost by separating the geometry composition from the node mapping. Unfortunately, even
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by deckar01 8y ago
OpenSCAD's performance only scales with the clock speed of a single CPU core. On any sufficiently complex composition, the underlying geometry engine will eventually either slow to a crawl due to combinatorial node visits or fail to re
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by deckar01 8y ago
> A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer By this definition any FPGA that has been correctly programmed is
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by deckar01 8y ago
It is a phone. If you need uninterrupted productivity, use any other type of personal computing device.
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> Public float - The portion of a company's outstanding shares that is in the hands of public investors, as opposed to company officers, directors, or controlling-interest investors. http://www.investorwords.com/3936
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by deckar01 8y ago
> While EPS is widely used as a way to track a company’s performance, shareholders do not have direct access to those profits. A portion of the earnings may be distributed as a dividend, but all or a portion of the EPS will be retained b
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by deckar01 8y ago
> Verizon said in the filing Tuesday that it last assessed the Oath brand's goodwill at $4.8 billion. Writing off $4.6 billion of that means Verizon now values Oath — including AOL and Yahoo subsidiaries like Yahoo.com, AOL.com, the
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by deckar01 8y ago
It's undo stack is still limited to one operation, so it is worthless to me for anything other than a one line change.
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by deckar01 8y ago
> If it becomes less attractive for web developers to write code that works across browsers, consumers could ultimately be persuaded to leave Firefox. Developers already hate supporting multiple browsers. I can understand adopting new EC
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by deckar01 8y ago
Thanks for the insight. I still don't fully understand the point of the article. It seems to be focused on publishers getting to keep the extra ad revenue. Does that mean the advertisers don't get a refund for their overpriced ads
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by deckar01 8y ago
https://outline.com/NWDj34
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My mom got flagged by a system like this a few years ago. The state was in a financial bind, so they hired an algorithmic auditing firm to claw back public funds from medical professionals who billed Medicare/Medicaid. They had been la
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by deckar01 8y ago
I rationize the multiverse theory this way: There may be events that are purely chaotic. If you could rewind the universe, the outcome would change following a probability. If our universe started, then it is possible for a different univer
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by deckar01 8y ago
Machine time and operator time are about 20x more expensive than material cost when I quote 3D print requests.
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by deckar01 8y ago
State and federal governments around the world allow species to be hunted for public safety and preventing disease transmission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_license#Purposes
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Real Time Object Detection on Drone Video Stream
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by deckar01 8y ago
If you are in the US you can submit reports to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). https://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
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If you can't trust a user to identify copyright violations in someone else's work then you probably should blindly host content created by that user either. I think people would learn how copyright works so that they can prove it
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I am not talking about automating things, but rather setting up a system of self-governance. What if posting a video required you to review other peoples' videos to earn the right to post? And if you deviate from the majority opinion y
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This makes complete sense to me. There is no reason that posting content to a platform that millions of people could see should be free or instant. Other publishing platforms take responsibility for their content, and it costs them money th
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There is a fancy burger place near me that only serves a fixed number of customers per day. It is famous for the chef kicking people out for bringing children, dressing disrespectfully, and being offended for other random reasons. They gave

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